That's the only reason this game sparked my interest. Imagine disabling a ship in space combat, docking your ship next to it to board, then taking control of your character in your own ship as you and crewmates board and attack the crew of the enemy ship and take it over.

That's the only reason this game sparked my interest. Imagine disabling a ship in space combat, docking your ship next to it to board, then taking control of your character in your own ship as you and crewmates board and attack the crew of the enemy ship and take it over.

Mind the "lighting not final" disclaimer. If you're all like "this looks f@#king awesome", then remember you're supposed to be thinking how disappointed you are with the lighting. Stop being impressed by how it looks.

I don't know if this is already common knowledge, but if you're not an original backer but want some of the special original backer perks, extra ship options and lifetime insurance and such, you can 'money launder' through a willing original backer to get the goodies you want.

Original Backers also have access to the following ships, all of which come with Liftetime Insurance. Note that the below ships do not come with a copy of the game; if you want to play with the ships (or see them in your hangar), you need a game package (see above):

Default ship equipment (which is replaced via LTI if your ship is destroyed) can be found here.

The mechanics are the new person determines the cost of what they want. They then purchase other things from the store equal to that price (this also gets them Backer status; woohoo!). Then, they wait 24 hours, because items purchased from the store have a delay before they can be turned into credit. After 24 hours, the new person uses the in-store gifting option to send his purchases to the Original Backer. Gifts, in the past, could take up to several hours to appear, but CIG seems to have solved that issue and they appear in a couple minutes.

The Original Backer then takes these items and cashes them in for store credit and adds the appropriate stuff to their cart. When checking out, the Backer can press a button on the check-out screen to apply store credit, and enters in the right amount. After checkout goes through, the Original Backer can then send the items back using the in-hangar gift option (which, again, only takes a couple minutes to process now).

Tada!

Also, make sure you pick an Original Backer who charges reasonable fees.

For the small difference in price, I would upgrade to either the 315p or 325a from the 300i. You get a lot of equipment for a minor dollar increase.

I'm very meh about the vanilla 300i now.

When you say you're meh about a ship, how do you know? I am always amazed when people talk about all the ships because what do we really know about them? Please enlighten me. I had a tough time picking a ship when I bought into the game because there's not much info to really make a choice from.

When you say you're meh about a ship, how do you know? I am always amazed when people talk about all the ships because what do we really know about them? Please enlighten me. I had a tough time picking a ship when I bought into the game because there's not much info to really make a choice from.

At one point I owned all four ships in the 300 series (300i, 315p, 325a, 350r). Taking the 350r out of the equation since it has a different hull (2 engines vs 1), the 300i quickly became redundant with the introduction of the other 2 variants. The 300i will be easily upgradable within the game to either a 315p or 325a.

Present day lets look at the costs of the ships.....a 300i is $55, a 315p is $65, and the 325a is $70. So for either $10 or $15 more, you get a nicely equipped ship compared to the rather bare 300i. With the variant options available for a reasonable price compared to the base model, I just don't feel the love for the 300i.

. This stuff is as old as the text type games of the C64 days. Though better graphics etc. I just wished it would be scaled down a bit.

wat

Translation: ::duckface emoticon:: The game is no different than a text adventure that old people used to play. But because it uses polygons, fractals, or some shit it looks slightly better than text. The game should only be playable by people with small hands. ::duckface emoticon:: ::random emoticon::

Apparently there is some furor on the net over there not being anything playable yet. To me the progress seems fine for any high quality game. Just having the hangar working is actually a very good start.